Sec. 42.05.727. Community energy programs.
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Sec. 42.05.727. Community energy programs.
(a)An electric utility subject to AS 42.05.725 — 42.05.735 shall make a community energy program available to a subscriber organization that requests interconnection. The electric utility shall allow eligible community energy facilities to interconnect to the facilities of the electric utility in accordance with interconnection standards approved by the commission. The electric utility shall submit to the commission for approval
(1)a community energy tariff with subscriptions available only to the retail consumers or member owners of the utility; and
(2)the maximum nameplate capacity for eligible community energy facilities within the utility's service area, considering the utility's load profile and effects on the rates and reliability from interconnecting with the facilities; the utility shall evaluate and update the nameplate capacity every two years.
(b)An electric utility, or an entity contracting to sell electric energy to an electric utility, may own a community energy facility.